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    in Egypt unleashed a social and political revolution against Hosni Mubarak’s repressive regime. Within months of setting up the page, called ‘We Are All Khaled Said’, over 250,000 people followed it. Inspired by Ghonim’s call to action, demonstrators protested against torture and other regime-led human rights abuses, high unemployment, poverty, and corruption, which “led to the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak and the dissolution of the ruling National Democratic Party.” Seeing how Egypt’s

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    countries. In this study, the comparison in political, economic and social aspects of the the two countries will be discussed in detail. To begin with, politically, Fascism and Nazism both believed in dictatorship and were against the republic form of government. Both Mussolini and Hitler led their country into a one-party dictatorship,

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    elect a Labour Government is not guaranteed, neither is securing the permanence of legislative changes made. These weaknesses in democratic socialism which prevent achieving Marxist socialism, stem from the same political system which enabled social democracy to reach socialist goals. Schumpeter (1943) argues that the only way to ensure socialist outcome through democratic means, is to abandon the idea of true democracy, and enforce socialism. This would inevitably lead to a ‘one-party-state’ with

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    Social Justice and Economic Efficiency: Fair Weather Friends Is it viable to achieve social justice and economic efficiency? To explore the possibilities, we must first define the terms that will be used in this paper. Social justice is, for the purposes of this article, defined as equity among race, gender, and income. In an ideal world, this definition would extend to equity across all dividing factors, including but not limited to: able-bodiedness, sexual orientation, religion, and class. British

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    Democracy vs Dictatorship

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    Imagine the next time you step into the voting booth your ballot only lists one candidate to choose from. Or perhaps your ballot lists four candidates, but they are all from the Liberal party. Dictatorships are one party political systems that are ruled by one leader or an elite group of people under the principle of authoritarianism. Some feel that dictatorships are the most effective form of government because decisions are made quickly and extreme nationalism benefits the military and economy

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    The ideas, social democracy and conservatism have impacted social policy to support the citizens within New Zealand. They contrast in ways, which they are based upon. Social democracy bases their ideas in state intervention to support the welfare creating egalitarianism. Whereas conservatism base their ideas by providing minimal state intervention, where tradition social institutions are conserved and natural authority is established. Both ideas support individuals by providing a good vision; this

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    Abortion

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    a termination of pregnancy. (Kelly, 2016) Consequently, Northern Irish women need to travel around the UK to practice abortion. Since they need to pay the procedure as well as travel and accommodation, it cost roughly 900 pounds. It is a matter of social justice as only the poorest women are victims of this discrimination. However, thanks to this new bill, from now on, the Government will reimburse every abortion for every Northern Irish women and will pay travel and accommodation for those who earn

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    many groups. This in South Africa can be associated with NGO’s, Trade Unions, Professional associations and business lobbyists which share power. Pluralist theory can only investigate democratic states (Diane & Julian, 2009:11).Therefore in this study it will be applicable on the basis that multiple political parties and trade Unions exist in South Africa. The absence of policy implementation on democracy indicators will be investigated based on the three: human Dignity, democracy education and Free

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    success in 1983 must be attributed primarily to the pre-war circumstances including the poor public perception of the Labour Party following their tenure in office prior to 1979 and Thatcher’s social and economic policies. The Conservative victory was not down to a singular event, but a combination of events that all affected her image and her perception by the British electorate. Had Labour been a stronger opponent, the Conservatives may not have won in 1983. The most valid conclusion drawn is that of

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    going to look at in terms of the means of achieving socialism are revolutionary socialism and evolutionary socialism, and in terms of the aims of different socialists I am going to discuss Marxism, including orthodox communism, and also social democracy and the 'third way'. Because socialism tends to have an oppositional character, and be seen as a force

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